'Her Body & Other Parties' to be developed into an anthology TV series

The series is already being billed as a "force in the conversation about gender".

Her Body and Other Parties

Source: Graywolf Press

Carmen Maria Machado’s critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, is set to be adapted for television, with Imagine Television (Empire, Parenthood) developing a Black Mirror style anthology TV series.


Machado's book of feminist, queer horror stories was released last year and saw the author nominated for a National Book Award.
According to , Samie Kim Falvey, the president of Imagine Television, has predicted the series will "be a force in the conversation about gender."

She continued, saying Machado’s stories “capture the intense, unspoken psychology of inhabiting a woman’s body today.”

Writer-producer Gina Welch (Feud, The Terror) is believed to be attached to the project.


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Published 15 June 2018 12:38pm
By Samuel Leighton-Dore


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